I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
In the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. … The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified.
Things do not turn out the way you think they will.
Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution.
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another